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Quoting for work

You should not have to guess whether an enquiry is a real job.

Every enquiry is read and sorted, and the ones worth your time arrive with the sender's real reply address already attached — so your hour goes on quotes that can land.

Real jobs, not guesswork

A week in dry run · you still get everything

Real quote Fake quote
Real quote: Acme Company

Why it got hard

The fakes stopped looking fake

Enquiries used to be easy to sort. The ones that were not real read like nothing a person would write. Now a bid request arrives that is vague about the site and the scope, uses phrasing nobody uses out loud, and is otherwise indistinguishable from somebody who wants the job doing.

So you read it twice, and you are still not sure. Ignoring it might cost you the work. Answering it costs you an hour and a quote that goes nowhere.

James Hart

Foxhall Developments

Real quote

Quote for the Foxhall Road roof

Names the street, the pitch and a date.

Procurement Desk

global-trade.example

Fake quote

Seeking a reputable company for installation

No site, no scope, no dates named.

Mark Ellis

Ellis & Co Architects

Real quote

Extension drawings — can you price this?

Plans attached, asks for a timeline.

Alex Mercer

growth-partners.example

Fake quote

Partnership opportunity for your brand

Generic outbound with a booking link.

Dan Poole

Northgate Facilities

Real quote

Repair to the flat roof on our unit

Access details and photos included.

Growth Team

rankboost.example

Fake quote

Boost your rankings this quarter

Unsolicited pitch, not about the job.

James Hart

Foxhall Developments

Real quote

Quote for the Foxhall Road roof

Names the street, the pitch and a date.

Procurement Desk

global-trade.example

Fake quote

Seeking a reputable company for installation

No site, no scope, no dates named.

Mark Ellis

Ellis & Co Architects

Real quote

Extension drawings — can you price this?

Plans attached, asks for a timeline.

Alex Mercer

growth-partners.example

Fake quote

Partnership opportunity for your brand

Generic outbound with a booking link.

Dan Poole

Northgate Facilities

Real quote

Repair to the flat roof on our unit

Access details and photos included.

Growth Team

rankboost.example

Fake quote

Boost your rankings this quarter

Unsolicited pitch, not about the job.

Sarah Vance

Vance Interiors

Real quote

Refit quote for our reception

Floor plan and budget range attached.

Sales Outreach

primeleads.example

Fake quote

Exclusive offer for your company

Mass mail, nothing about your work.

Tom Bright

Bright & Sons Builders

Real quote

Can you re-render the side elevation?

Address, deadline and a phone number.

Partnerships

nexa-global.example

Fake quote

Collaboration request

Vague pitch, link to a booking page.

Priya Shah

Shah Property

Real quote

Guttering replacement — full terrace

Photos, measurements, access notes.

Marketing

clickpeak.example

Fake quote

Rank #1 on Google, guaranteed

Cold pitch, no detail about the job.

Sarah Vance

Vance Interiors

Real quote

Refit quote for our reception

Floor plan and budget range attached.

Sales Outreach

primeleads.example

Fake quote

Exclusive offer for your company

Mass mail, nothing about your work.

Tom Bright

Bright & Sons Builders

Real quote

Can you re-render the side elevation?

Address, deadline and a phone number.

Partnerships

nexa-global.example

Fake quote

Collaboration request

Vague pitch, link to a booking page.

Priya Shah

Shah Property

Real quote

Guttering replacement — full terrace

Photos, measurements, access notes.

Marketing

clickpeak.example

Fake quote

Rank #1 on Google, guaranteed

Cold pitch, no detail about the job.

Won it
+247

This week

Every real quote reached you

Delivered

4%

Held

96%

Why a filter is a risk for you

One missed quote costs more than a year of noise

For most businesses a spam filter that is slightly too keen is an annoyance. For you it is a job that went to somebody else, and you never find out it happened. That is the reason most people in your position never install one at all, and it is the right instinct.

So the trade is made the other way round here. When we are not sure, you get it. When anything on our side fails, everything is delivered rather than held. And nothing we hold is deleted — it sits in your account, readable, one click from your mailbox, for as long as your retention window says.

No reply-to

Quote request — new roof

The plugin sent it from your own website's address, not the person who wrote it. Your reply has nowhere to go.

the customer
reply-to · your own site
Went nowhere

Re: Quote request — new roof

Delivered to a mailbox on your own server that nobody reads. It looks exactly like being ignored.

never delivered
to · noreply@your-site

The one you did answer

A quote that never arrives looks exactly like a quote that was ignored

Plenty of form plugins send you the enquiry from your own website's address rather than from the person who wrote it. Press reply, write the price, send — and it lands in a mailbox on your own server that nobody reads.

We find the sender's real address — in the Reply-To header, in the body of the message, or in the From header — and set it as the address your reply goes to. Every delivered enquiry says which of the three it came from. When none of them yields an address, the message is marked rather than handed to you looking answerable.

Watch it for a week before it holds anything

Change one field in your form settings and everything is delivered exactly as it is today. We check each enquiry and record what we would have held, and you decide at the end of the week whether we were right about your mail. Putting your own address back is the same one field.

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